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Summary: Superb movie, and completely TRUE!!
Review: This is one of my favorite movies. This fact based story is as close to the real thing as possible, I can personally vouch for that.I was in Iran for almost 2 years before the Shah was kicked out in 1979 and I can tell you that every aspect of Iranian life you see in the film is absolutely true. Anyone who thinks otherwise is really full of BS, and I got a few other words for you. This is a heart felt story of escaping evil for a mother's love of her daughter. There is nothing wrong with thie movie at all. I would recommend it to everyone, it's a real tearjerker. And the most telling part is that the whole thing actually happened.
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Summary: racist attack on Iranians and Muslims generally
Review: You'll have to laugh at the fact that this movie is precisely the type of thing Hollywood wouldn't make now for any amount of money. It wouldn't be any less true, of course, but it wouldn't be 'tolerant' to report these abuses that any educated person already knew about anyway. Take a peek into a twisted culture that treats women little better than caged animals. Absolutely vile, inexcusable behavior no matter how hard some may try to spin it away. 'Tolerance' is not a burden on our part when human rights are being trampled on like this....the burden of tolerance is squarely on Middle Eastern culture and anyone who says otherwise is pushing an agenda that leads to accepting what this story shows. That this woman had to endure this and come back here and have some belittle this story as fabricated is indescribably cruel as well as knowingly false. A brave woman who, by her own innocence, walked into a nest of ignorance and callousness and came out the other end to warn you.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent movie!
Review: I really enjoyed this movie. It's very disturbing for me to hear that things like this actually happen in this world, but deep down I know it does. Everywhere. I don't think in any way, does this movie or Betty Mahmoody try to make ALL iranians or muslims "look bad" I think that this is just a portrayal of what happened to a woman and her child by a man, who so obviously did everything he could to control her. It happens in ALL parts of the world and there are movies and books about those as well. I think it's unfair to say that Betty is crazy or that the producers and directors of the film are being biased. It's an actual account of an acctual womans story and what happened to her. At no point in the movie did they make the statement that ALL Iranians are crazy or that the muslim faith is stupid. I just think that Betty, happened to marry into the wrong family, things could and probably would have been very different with a different man of the same faith and ethnicity.
In one review I read where one was offended that Dr. Mahmoody makes the statement that Iranians only shower once per month. NOT TRUE!! He does NOT say that. He tells her that his family thinks they have sex all the time b/c they shower 2-3 times per day and in their culture after a husband and wife have been "together" they must wash before prayer b/c it's unclean.
Which very well could be true and even IF not in the muslim faith, it could very well have been a rule in HIS family. Overall, I think this was a very good movie and would definitely recommend it to any and everyone!
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